The politics of the vast deserts and steppes of Central Asia will significantly determine the contours of any durable Afghan settlement. The implications for South Asia’s security will be far-reaching, too.
by M.K. Bhadrakumar
Ibn Battuta, the 14th-century traveller, described the Hindu Kush ranges as the “slayer of the Indians,” as people from the “land of India” […]
by HK
“The horror … the horror.” General Stanley McChrystal, the Pentagon supremo in Afghanistan, is being massively sold in the US as a Zen warrior – a 21st-century stalwart incarnation of the “best and the brightest”. But he may be a warrior intellectual more like Colonel Kurz than Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse […]
President Barack Obama makes remarks in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Note for WoP Readers: In series that follows now, Pepe Escober details the great game being played by Washington to […]
Pakistan has suffered more than any one in War against terrorism. With more than 2000 of its soldiers, along with thousands of other security men killed and thousands injured, it is still gallantly engage in rooting out terror from its soil and compare to US and NATO in Afghanistan is doing excellent.
Unfortunately time is proving […]
Instead of any betterment, Afghanistan is getting from bad to worst. After the invasion of Afghanistan by US and its Allies today history is repeating it self. Afghanistan is fastly moving towards a civil war. Pashtun are getting bitter day by day due to their genocide by US and its local and foreign allies. Taliban […]
Muslims in America: Identity and isolationAn early morning flight to D.C., day-long conference and empty cityscape drained me of energy. Exhausted, I stepped out of my nondescript hotel into the street and felt a heavy air pregnant with moisture. Heading down the sidewalk to find dinner, I came across the shadow of a man who […]
by PETER CHAMBERLIN
(Left) In an exclusive interview to As-Sahab, an Islamic website, Mullah Nazir of South Waziristan gives his version of ‘Pakistani Taliban phenomena.
’In a world where all the Western media and most of the foreign press has proven that it cannot be trusted to tell the truth we cannot possibly […]
US weapons have mysteriously landed in the hands of terrorists in Pakistan. Now we have the Al Qaeda leadership freely accessing the foreign media in Afghanistan saying it would use Pakistani nukes against America. What is the US up to with Al Qaeda? Post-9/11 the world has had a memory lapse over the US-Al Qaeda […]
Pakistani Team
Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka in 20-20 final yesterday. It is good news after many months of depression. We are passing through a hard time. People are getting depressed due to rising terrorism, inflation and Crime etc. Pakistan’s victory is world cup 20 20 and its victories against terrorists is morale boasting for a nation […]
I have always said one cannot understand the Taliban movement’s in Afghanistan and in Pakistan and war on terror in our region without understanding the great game across central and euro Asia. Only and only by understanding the patterns of moves and counter moves, we can analyze and predict the coming situations and moves of […]
Note The Important Geo Strategic Location Of Pakistan
The war on terror and its effects on Pakistan cannot be understood without understanding the wider picture in the region. Clausewitz rightly noted that “War is extension of Policy by other mean” . This war on terror or as Obama administration has renamed it OCO (Over Sea Contingency […]
The 2004 electoral map of Ukraine (Source: GlobalSecurity.org)
The Rivalry for Eurasia: The Periphery versus Eurasian Powers
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
In each one of these struggles, there is rivalry between a distinctly “Eurasian base of power” and a “Peripheral base of power” that is dominated by Western Europe and the United States. In other words, the struggle opposes Eurasia […]
Baluchistan is the backbone of Pakistan. If you make it weak you can make Pakistan weak, and, if you break it you can break Pakistan. In today’s exclusive discussion with Zaid Hamid we try to understand the ‘game’ being played in Baluchistan and what is the solution to this problem.
This cup of tea […]
By Tayyab Balagamwala
It was 17 years ago on a beautiful evening of March 25th when Imran Khan’s cornered tigers rose to the highest honor possible in the game of cricket by winning a great game and lifting the coveted Waterball Crystal trophy which conferred the title of World Champions on them in front of 87182 […]
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